SPOONBILL 209 



One, Skegness, Lincolnshire, Sept. 9, 1881. Cullingford, 

 ZooL, 1882, p. 22. 



One, Ball's Park, Hertfordshire, Sept. 10, 1881 (Trans. 

 Herts Nat. Hist. Soc, ii. p. 84). 



One, Dogmersfield Park, Hants, Sept. 15, 1881. Hooper, 

 ZooL, 1881, p. 494. 



One, on the Wolverton Marshes, near Lynn, Sept. 16, 

 1881. Southwell, ZooL, 1881, p. 469. Previously seen at 

 Cley, ZooL, 1883, p. 318.i 



One, Tring Reservoir, Herts, Oct. 29, 1886 (Hon. W. 

 Rothschild in litt., Oct. 31, 1886). 



One, Saltash, Devon, Oct. 4, 1900. Brought to me in 

 the flesh by Mr. John Cooper, by whom it was preserved. 



The last-mentioned bird, which was exhibited 

 by me at a meeting of the Linnean Society, Nov, 1, 

 1900, measured in expanse of wing SS in., and 

 weighed /2^oz. 



Fam. PLATALEID^. 



SPOONBILL. Platalea leucorodia, Linnaeus. PI. 24, 

 fig. 1. Length, 31 in. ; bill, 7 in. ; wing, 14 in. ; tarsus, 

 5*5 in. 



The Spoonbill, Shovelard, Shoveler, or Popeler 

 was formerly resident (or perhaps a regular summer 

 migrant from Holland), but it is now only an occa- 

 sional visitant at uncertain intervals. 



Sir Thomas Browne, who died in 1682, wrote of 

 this bird, then known as the Shovelard, that it used 

 to build in the heronry at Claxton and Reedham in 

 Norfolk, as well as at Trimley in Suffolk. 



' The reported occurrence of so many specimens of the Glossy Ibis 

 in different parts of the country about the same time shows how 

 quickly the appearance of a rare bird is detected at the present day. 







